Prowess is a database of large and medium Indian firms. It contains detailed information on over 23,000 firms. These comprise

• All companies traded on India's major stock exchanges
• Several others including the central public sector enterprises.

The database covers most of the

• Organised industrial activities
• Banking
• Organised financial and other services sectors in India.

The companies covered in Prowess account for

• 75 per cent of all corporate taxes
• Over 95 per cent of excise duty collected by the Government of India.

Prowess provides detailed information on each company. This includes a normalised database of the financials covering 1,500 data items and ratios per company. Besides, it provides quantitative information on

• Production
• Sales
• Consumption of raw material
• Energy.

Totally, the number of indicators per company is close to two thousand. Such information is usually available for over ten years. You will also find useful

• Contact information
• Share holding pattern
• List of bankers
• Auditors
• News abstracts

Prowess also provides   daily time series of share prices, computed returns that include

• Dividends and other gains
• P/E based on the profits of the last four quarters
• A host of other useful ratios and values.

Prowess has found useful applications in places where trust matters the most

• Commercial banks
• Investment companies
• Researchers
• Chartered Accountants/Transfer Pricing

It packages a normalised database in a versatile and amazingly   powerful software. The software permits unlimited querying power to the user.